THE HISTORICAL REGISTER, Volume 2

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Sun Fire Office, 1718

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Page 231 - House has met before that day, or will meet on the day of the issue), issue his warrant to the clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for electing another member in the room of the member whose seat has so become vacant.
Page 299 - BAPTISM is not only a sign of profession, and mark of difference, whereby Christian men are discerned from others that be not christened ; but it is also a sign of regeneration or new birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive Baptism rightly are grafted into the Church...
Page 299 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 168 - Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal fubieos, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament aflembled,: beg leave to return your Majefty our moft humble thanks for your moft gracious fpeech from the throne.
Page 42 - I am a member of the schismatical church, whose bishops set themselves up in opposition to those orthodox fathers, who were unlawfully and invalidly deprived by the Prince of Orange. I declare that I renounce that communion, and that I die a dutiful and faithful member of the nonjuring church ; which has kept itself free from rebellion and schism, and has preserved and maintained true orthodox principles, both as to church and state.
Page 127 - Maxims lately advanc'd, viz. That the Parliament may exert their Authority to extricate themfelves, by reducing the National Debts ; that fuch Maxims could not but alarm the Perfons concern'd in the publick Securities •, and the more, when they faw that a Slur had been put upon 'the Motion made three Days before, ' That all Parliamentary Engagements Qlould effectually be made good.
Page 395 - I could heartily with, that at a time, when the common enemies of our religion are, by all manner of artifices, endeavouring to undermine and weaken it, both at home and abroad...
Page 325 - Conliitution of Parliament, the great and only Security of the Prerogative of the Crown, and of the Rights, Liberties, and Properties of the People...
Page 42 - Christian friends, is to exhort you all to return to your duty. Remember that king James the third is your only rightful sovereign, by the laws of the land, and the constitution of the kingdom. And, therefore, if you would perform the duty of justice to him, which is due to all mankind, you are obliged, in conscience, to do all you can to restore him to his crown...
Page 129 - March, 1794, upon lands, tenements, hereditaments, penfions, offices, and perfonal eftates, in that part of Great Britain called England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed ; and that a proportionable cefs, according. to the ninth article of the Treaty of Union, be laid upon that part of Great Britain called Scotland 2000000 o O February 6.

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